DesigNote vs Pull to Refresh
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DesigNote
A collection tool for designers and product managers to gather and organize inspiring applications. It allows users to save and categorize apps that catch their eye, with future support for notes, account sync, and collaboration.
- Collect inspiring applications
- Sort and organize apps
- Edit application notes
- Account synchronization
- Multi-party collaboration
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DesigNote is a collection tool designed for GUI designers, interaction designers, product managers and application collectors. You can use DesigNote to collect and sort out the applications that make your eyes light and keep watching. DesigNote will also support more multi-function, such as editing application notes, account synchronization, multi-party collaboration, etc. Please look forward!
Pull to Refresh
This app locks your most time-consuming applications until you complete physical exercises. Earn back minutes for your apps by doing push-ups, sit-ups, or other movements, with the camera accurately counting your reps. Your exercise data can be saved to Health.
- App time allowance setting
- Exercise-based rep counting
- Pose detection for accurate reps
- Health app integration
- Optional public leaderboard
- Strict mode for enhanced blocking
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Pull to refresh. Actually pull. Pick the apps that eat your day, give them an allowance, and when it runs out they lock. To get back in, you do reps. The camera counts them on your phone. HOW IT WORKS 1. Choose the apps. Instagram, TikTok, X, games — whatever you actually lose hours to. 2. Set the allowance. So many minutes a day, a few minutes an hour, or nothing at all. 3. Run out, and they shut. 4. Do a set. Push-ups, sit-ups, squats, pull-ups or jumping jacks. 5. Spend what you earned, on whichever app you were reaching for. THE COUNTING IS HONEST Reps are scored from your body's joint positions, not from your phone shaking in a pocket. A rep only counts on a full movement — down to depth and back — so half-reps score nothing, and the app tells you why instead of leaving you guessing. Shaking the phone pays exactly zero. Time is measured in real use of those apps, not on a clock. Put the phone down mid-scroll and the minutes you paid for are still there. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE Pose detection runs on the device. No video is recorded, stored or uploaded, and there is no account to make. iOS hands the app opaque tokens rather than names, so it can tell that you picked an app — never what you do inside it. IT COUNTS TWICE Finished sets can be saved to Health as workouts, so reps done here go to your Move ring and show up in Fitness with everything else. RACE SOMEONE Put your reps on a public board and chase a friend. Opt-in, under any name you like, and leaving deletes your row. PRO Free covers a whole working loop: one group of apps on a daily allowance, every exercise, rep counting, Health and the leaderboard. Forever. Pro makes the lock harder — it never makes it softer: - Strict mode. A rule you cannot switch off the moment you want to. Changing it costs a cooling-off period first, which is exactly when you would have caved. - Minutes per hour. Short check-ins instead of one long sitting. - As many rules as you like, with different limits for different apps. - Your whole history, with streaks. Money never buys screen time here. Only reps do that. Pro is a subscription, renewing until cancelled, or a one-off payment for good. Manage or cancel any time in Settings. WORTH KNOWING Blocking uses Apple's Screen Time. You will be asked to grant it on first launch, and the camera when you do your first set. Deleting the app removes every lock, whatever you have bought — this is a speed bump you chose, not a cage. Privacy Policy - https://ef03b566.pull-to-refresh.pages.dev/privacy EULA - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DesigNote at none against Pull to Refresh's 2. DesigNote also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Pull to Refresh sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. DesigNote asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DesigNote against 5.0 for Pull to Refresh. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 8 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | DesigNote | Pull to Refresh |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 文晖 陈 | Ivan Chernoknizhnikov |
Customer experience
DesigNote
Pull to Refresh
In-app purchases
DesigNote
No in-app purchases
Pull to Refresh
- Monthly$12.991 Month
- Yearly$44.991 Year
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